Illustration of a carnival ride for children from a series “SUNSET ON SMALL TOWN CARNIVALS”. Owing to the rise of mega-parks and high liability insurance, small town carnivals are rapidly disappearing. Whenever possible I like to document this vanishing icon of the Twentieth Century American landscape.
I started doing the illustrations because I had a lot of pictures of people, but no model releases. Thank you for your thoughts. If you think of a way to make the work better, don’t hesitate to say— I’m not one of those fragile artists that only wants praise. I’ve learned the most lately from thoughtful critiques. Best Regards, Robin!
Rob … if you use the drybrush in PS you will not have to mess with vectors, etc … it will give you same effect … have a look at some of my work see what i mean … ….
I did! I guess I just didn’t know it was called a dry brush. I did the vector conversion to create illustrations I could sell via stock galleries. The vectors can be blown up large, then rasterized at a very high resolution— much higher than the original image— and still have a manageable file size.
No, thank you for giving me a better understanding of the technique! It’s actually a lot of fun. Another reason I did the vector conversion was because it destroyed peoples’ likenesses without wrecking the composition— that way I could sell without having a crap load of model releases Ç;-)
Hi Robert… what you do is highly complicated. At least for me. I wonder if the newspapers should have model releases when they edit their journals. Mostly people´s pictures are fulling the pages of the papers… and no one has asked the releases…
Any way…. is good to do something for not having problems. I love your work because it has fantasy even it is a natural take about something that one can find in daily life. I know you love th carnival installations… I can see them.. and you give them a new shade, teint and personality… extracting out of them the essential of forms, and colours.. for sure they did a great impression into your child´s heart. Rosa (thanks a lot Robert for your kind words and company. )
Newspapers don’t need model releases because they are an editorial medium. Where I would have problems is offering this image in stock galleries for sale to commercial users. I do not believe this is a problem for RB.
This is so cool! Love the vibrancy! Although I can draw in illustrator I haven’t managed to get a handle on it’s live paint effects! They just don’t want to work for me- any tips! Regards Chrissy
Thanx Chrissy. Glad you like the effect. Started out as a way to salvage photo images with bad exposures.
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Excellent. Love your carnival scenes. Colors are so vibrant and the paintings are so full of life. Takes me back to my youth…..
I started doing the illustrations because I had a lot of pictures of people, but no model releases. Thank you for your thoughts. If you think of a way to make the work better, don’t hesitate to say— I’m not one of those fragile artists that only wants praise. I’ve learned the most lately from thoughtful critiques. Best Regards, Robin!
nicely drybrushed
Thank you Dave! Took me about a day to create this image. I like the term ‘dry-brushed’. Seems appropriate, though I haven’t heard it used before.
– Bob Fox
Rob … if you use the drybrush in PS you will not have to mess with vectors, etc … it will give you same effect … have a look at some of my work see what i mean … ….
I did! I guess I just didn’t know it was called a dry brush. I did the vector conversion to create illustrations I could sell via stock galleries. The vectors can be blown up large, then rasterized at a very high resolution— much higher than the original image— and still have a manageable file size.
– Bob Fox
oh cool didnt know that … wwoo thanks for sharing
No, thank you for giving me a better understanding of the technique! It’s actually a lot of fun. Another reason I did the vector conversion was because it destroyed peoples’ likenesses without wrecking the composition— that way I could sell without having a crap load of model releases Ç;-)
– Bob Fox
cool …
Hi Robert…
what you do is highly complicated.
At least for me.
I wonder if the newspapers should have model releases when they edit their journals.
Mostly people´s pictures are fulling the pages of the papers… and no one has asked the releases…
Any way…. is good to do something for not having problems.
I love your work because it has fantasy even it is a natural take about something that one can find in daily life. I know you love th carnival installations… I can see them.. and you give them a new shade, teint and personality… extracting out of them the essential of forms, and colours.. for sure they did a great impression into your child´s heart.
Rosa (thanks a lot Robert for your kind words and company. )
Rosa, thanks so much for your comments.
Newspapers don’t need model releases because they are an editorial medium. Where I would have problems is offering this image in stock galleries for sale to commercial users. I do not believe this is a problem for RB.
This is so cool! Love the vibrancy! Although I can draw in illustrator I haven’t managed to get a handle on it’s live paint effects! They just don’t want to work for me- any tips!
Regards Chrissy
Thanx Chrissy. Glad you like the effect. Started out as a way to salvage photo images with bad exposures.
– Bob Fox
love the colours
I think bright lights and colors are synonymous with carnivals. Thanx for looking!
– Bob Fox